Frank Wilson

Retiring from academic work when I was sixty, I shifted my attention happily to other kinds of written output; first of all as a feature writer and editor of local magazines and then to poetry and short stories. My first collection of poems Blackberries  was privately published in 2008 to raise funds to assist those with Multiple Sclerosis in the UK. I have won awards for poetry and short stories in both the UK and British Columbia.

My  Nowt To Do With Me – Rural Stories From the North of  England   – was published by Peakpublish in the UK in January 2013. A second short-story volume  Nowt To Do With My Wife   was published in 2015. A third book of short stories  Nowt At All Like Home  was published in 2020. Four collections of poetry have been published in Canada by Tusitala Victoria;  Chasing Crows   (2013 reprinted 2015),  Apple Man (2016) and Crows in the Apple Tree (2019). Village Lines, which is a collaboration with UK-based artist Alan Taylor, was published in Victoria and printed in the UK in 2021. The most recent book; A Walk in the Park – Uplands Golf Club 1922-2022 was published in 2022.

In 1964 I married the girl I had met during my last few months at grammar school. We now live in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada where I write, garden, write again, sing, play golf, enjoy the company of our grand-children, then write again.